Asteroid Day

Asteroid Day Page of the Haitian Astronomical Society

About Asteroid Day (#AsteroidDay)

Asteroid Day is a global awareness movement where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do to protect our planet, our families, communities, and future generations. Asteroid Day will be held on the anniversary of the 1908 Siberian Tunguska event, the largest asteroid impact on Earth in recent history. You can now sign the 100x Declaration yourself, right here.

The Haitian Astronomical Society organized an event during this day (June 30, 2016). It has been previously planned for a two-part event one in the radio station and the another one in an art gallery, but unfortunately only the first part of the event has been realized: (See info about our event in Asteroid Day official website also)

=========================================Un interview de Jean Pierre Luminet au sujet des asteroides geocroiseur:

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A special emission about asteroid in our project "Astronomie en Equilibre" has been done. It is downlable if you click here. It is a project originally founded by Astronomers Without Borders to have basic astronomy broadcast for Haitian public (6-8 h PM). We are emetting from a regional radio station in the Artibonite region of Haiti: Equilibre FM, 90.9 FM.

You may play the Asteroid Game manwhile too: Asteroid-F, or watch this video "ASTEROID IMPACT MISSION"...